Black Peter(Černý Petr)
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Czechoslovakia · 1964
1h 29m
Director Miloš Forman
Starring Ladislav Jakim, Pavla Martínková, Jan Vostrčil, Vladimír Pucholt
Genre Comedy, Drama
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In 1963 Czechoslovakia, Petr, an aimless youth, begins his first job as a security guard in a busy supermarket, but he's too shy to confront shoplifters. He's just as tongue-tied around the beautiful Asa, as well as during his father's blustery lectures about personal responsibility and the dignity of labor.
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It's interesting to see where Miloš Forman's career went after he left Czechoslovakia for the United States, because his most famous works, like Amadeus and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, have such a different style than his earlier work, being much more bombastic. Personally, I love his earlier threadbare 60s style, and the excruciatingly relatable characters of Black Peter, a film that forcibly transports oneself back to the awkwardness of high school and the accompanying difficulty of entering adulthood.